Charlie Schlenker
Senior ReporterWGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker grew up in Rock Island, Illinois, and graduated from Augustana College. He has spent more than four decades in radio and has won numerous state and national awards for journalism. He lives in Normal with his family.
Contact Charlie at ceschle@ilstu.edu.
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El alcalde de Bloomington, Dan Brady, no cree que una votación reñida del concejo municipal para dedicar el dinero del impuesto a las ventas de comestibles a la infraestructura sea el resultado de mensajes inconsistentes. -
Illinois State leaders are urging the campus to commit to change and remain flexible as the university implements a new budgeting process that could significantly re-allocate program funds. -
Mayor Dan Brady says he does not think a close city council vote to dedicate grocery sales tax money to infrastructure came about because of inconsistent messaging.
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Mientras la administración Trump envía soldados de la National Guard (Guardia Nacional) a Chicago, media docena de estudiantes de la Illinois State University han sido llamados al servicio activo esta semana. -
Farmland owners who want to sell their acreage are holding back this fall, compared with this time last year — while land prices have declined slightly. -
As the Trump administration sends National Guard soldiers to Chicago, a half dozen Illinois State University students have been called to active duty this week.
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If you enjoy humor found in unusual places ... if you enjoy sorting through public documents ... if you enjoy bluegrass music, then this show might just be for you. It's called "FOIA Love." -
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told a crowd of about 1,200 people at Illinois Wesleyan University on Monday night that Bloomington-Normal favorite son Adlai Stevenson II was her commencement speaker the year she graduated college. -
Another approved use of money is to replace an aging electronic record management system that integrates information for the courts, law enforcement, and other McLean County stakeholders. There has been a lot of unhappiness about that project too. -
In this glued-to-your-phone era of technological isolation from our fellow human beings, one creative person is turning to old tech to help people reconnect and spread joy and a little art. As part of our ongoing feature series More of That, Please, we bring you the story of typewriter poetry.
